Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four candidates deny any commitment to outsiders, while Kennedy, Johnson and Humphrey as vehemently discount involvement in either race. Kennedy plans to concentrate on New York, where he has been jousting for the spotlight with the state's senior Senator, Republican Jacob Javits. As for L.B.J., a White House aide says that "the President wouldn't get caught within 25 feet" of any of the candidates. Even so, both races will inevitably be interpreted as straws in the wind...
Roosevelt explained he did not think Senator Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.) would seek to defeat Rockefeller for the Republican nomination. "Javits would probably be better off with a Democratic governor," Roosevelt noted, "so that he could be top dog, just as Bobby Kennedy is better off with a Republican in Albany...
...Ever since he was a Manhattan lawyer before World War II, the senior U.S. Senator from New York has been interested in Latin America. What makes Republican Jacob Javits' thoughts especially worthwhile is that they often coincide with the private views of the White House. Thus last week, as the New York Republican ended a swing through Peru, Chile, Argentina and Brazil, Government and business leaders listened attentively to his ideas...
...Plainfield, N.H. In 1964, with a retrospective show in Manhattan, Parrish was hailed as a precursor of pop art, and responded by saying: "How can these avant-garde people get anything out of me? I'm so hopelessly commonplace." Probably his most lasting single work, bought by John Jacob Astor in 1906 for $50,000, is a 30-ft. mural of King Cole and his merry court that still jollifies the bar of Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel...
...firmly denying that that was his mission. "Any country that can sell tea sets to Russians, export one million bedstead knobs in 1964 and persuade foreigners to buy water from Glasgow can be relied upon to sell anything," he commercialized at a luncheon. As New York's Senator Jacob Javits, a bit mixed up on titles, proclaimed: "He's a very relaxed monarch...